As reported by The Los Angeles Times, the Canadian singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen is suing his former business manager, Kelly Lynch, for harassment. Lynch was fired in 2004, and in 2005, Cohen successfully sued Lynch for stealing $5 million from his personal accounts. In this suit, Cohen alleges that Lynch sent thousands of e-mails and voice messages, many of them threatening and violent in nature. Some examples:

The woman’s voice in telephone messages left for singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen was low and steady.

“You are a sick man….You are a thief….You are a common thief.”

Cohen was the prosecution’s first witness, and he testified that he and Lynch had a business and personal relationship for about 17 years. At one point, he said, they had a “brief” intimate relationship. He said he fired her as his business manager in 2004.

As soon as he dismissed Lynch, she began calling and emailing him, Cohen said.

“It started with just a few now and then, but it eventually accelerated to 20 or 30 a day,”

The voice mail messages, Cohen said, were up to 10 minutes long. The caller leveled accusations and threats at him and said he “needed to be taken down and shot.”

“It makes me feel very conscious about my surroundings,” Cohen said. “Every time I see a car slow down, I get worried.”